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This chapter discuss about education sector’s role and management through experience of East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. Education sector’s main role is to provide proper education to the future citizens. Public schools are located in the community, and therefore, community people have certain level of recognition to school in the regular time as well as in the emergency time. It is often considered to be contradicted that if school becomes a shelter, how to continue the education. School as the core vital community infrastructure becomes the shelter for natural reasons. However, how to continue education during the post disaster is also important. Thus, the education in emergency becomes of utmost importance, and the school manual should be modified to reflect these lessons. Locations of the school, its structure, function, layout all become very important for countries like Japan, which has long coast line and relatively less flat areas. Thus, it becomes very important that the E-HFA (Hyogo framework for Action for Education sector) is properly realized and practiced in local governments in the high-risk areas.
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This study is funded by CWS and MERCY Malaysia support to Kyoto University, which is highly acknowledged. The authors also acknowledge the support from the local government education board and teachers who cooperated with the survey.
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Takeuchi, Y., Shaw, R. (2014). New Insights of Education Sector from East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. In: Shaw, R. (eds) Disaster Recovery. Disaster Risk Reduction. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54255-1_9
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